Programme Requirements for 2020/21 Session


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B.A. Russian Studies and International Relations Full-time

Year: 2
2020/21 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI International Relations Theory 08 20900 20 Semester 1

Students must choose both Advanced modules or both Intermediate modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Russian Core III - Advanced: Understanding Russia and the Russians 09 30220 20 Semester 1
LI Russian Core III - Intermediate: Understanding Russia and the Russians 09 30131 20 Semester 1
LI Russian Core IV - Advanced: Understanding Russia and the Russians 09 30225 20 Semester 2
LI Russian Core IV - Intermediate: Understanding Russia and the Russians 09 30138 20 Semester 2

In addition to the core language modules, students follow additional Level I modules from Russian Studies to the relevant credit value for their respective programme, to a combined total of 120 credits. Depending on the number of credits students opt to take in each language, optional module choices may be restricted (please refer to the relevant language section in the BA Modern Languages handbook and language-specific module choice information).

Choose 20 credits from the following modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Global Governance 08 27732 20 Semester 2
LI Analysing Political Worlds 08 26957 20 Semester 1
LI Comparative Politics 08 29356 20 Semester 1
LI Diplomatic History post 1945 08 20896 20 Semester 2
LI Feminist Political Ideas 08 29303 20 Semester 2
LI International Political Economy 08 20895 20 Semester 1
LI International Politics of East Asia 08 31213 20 Semester 1
LI International Relations of the Middle East 08 29292 20 Semester 1
LI International Security 08 20903 20 Semester 2
LI Race, Empire, and Modern Political Theory 08 32550 20 Semester 2
LI Russian Politics: From Revolution to Putin 08 36027 20 Semester 1
LI US Politics 08 36023 20 Semester 2

Russian Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Fiction in Place of Public Sphere: the Golden Age of Russian Novel from Pushkin to Turgenev 09 31145 10 Semester 1
LI Fiction in Place of Public Sphere: the Golden Age of Russian Novel, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy 09 31147 10 Semester 2